It took me a long time to find my story this week and I know it isn’t my best work, but I enjoyed the challenge and just the process I went through to get it written.

Here it is:

Out of Gas

James gasped for breath, his heart pounding. He’d been running for what felt like hours, though it was only a few minutes. He wanted to run forever, but even that wouldn’t be far enough away from that nightmare.

Definitely spooky. I don’t know why, but I got reminded of the Ring (the original version.) Well done.
This week’s prompt challenged me a lot too and I do not think this is one of my good pieces even. But I wanted to take up the challenge anyway.
Here is the link to mine:http://366degree.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/forget-him-not/
Cheers!

You have nothing to worry about here, Gaz. I think you’ve done a wonderfully macabre job here. The faceless stalker(s?), the shifting curtain, the all pervading sense of gloom and a sense of a man teetering on the brink of sanity/reality… it all works to great effect. I’d like to see you write more like this. Very well done 🙂
I don’t have one this week 😦 but here’s the link for my blog anyway (shameless plug for previous weeks’ flash ahoy…)

That’s a really bad nightmare the poor guy is having! Great story and you’re right about enjoying the process when a prompt is difficult. It’s like if I can get the first word, the first image, then the rest flows. The first part is the hardest but it feels good to be able to do it on demand so you know you can when you have to later, too.

I think I had my heart set on another fantasy, so the truck threw me off. Luckily I conjured up a backup idea, which stuck!
I managed to throw in a few sly nods to my influences too, which is always a neat little bonus.